A vishaya ( IAST : Viṣaya ) was a historical administrative unit of India, generally equivalent to a modern district .
7-412: Several other terms for units equivalent to a modern district appear in historical inscriptions, including āhāra , rashtra ( rāṣṭra ), maṇḍala , and deśa . The exact meaning of these terms varies by the period, the ruling dynasty, and the region. For example: The governor of a vishaya was called a vishaya- pati or a vishayadhyaksha . A vishaya was often included in a larger subdivisions such as
14-525: A bhukti ( province ). It was often divided into smaller units such as a bhoga . In the early medieval inscriptions of Maharashtra region, Punyaka- vishaya is another name for Pune mentioned in Rashtrakuta Kingdom copper plate dated 937 CE, which refers to the town as Punya-Vishaya, meaning 'sacred news'. This Bangladeshi history-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Indian history-related article
21-531: A master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign etc. For example, in the Vedas , we come across words such as Brhas –pati, Praja – pati, Vachas –pati, Pasu – pati, Apam –pati, Bhu pati, Tridasa – pati and Nr - pati. Here the 'pati’' is suffix translated as “Lord of …………..” In several Indo-European languages, cognate terms exist in varying forms (often as a suffix), for instance in the English word "despot" from
28-627: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pati (title) Pati ( Sanskrit : पति, 𐬯𐬙) is a title meaning " master " or " lord ". The word is in common usage in the Indian subcontinent today. Etymologically, the word derives from the Indo-European language family and finds references in various classical Indo-Iranian languages , including Sanskrit , Old Persian language and Avestan . In modern-day Hindustani and other Indo-Aryan languages , pati and patni have taken on
35-667: The Greek δεσ-πότης, meaning " master, despot, lord, owner ." In Latin, the term changed meaning from master to able , and is " an example of a substantive coming to be used as an adjective ," resulting in English words such as potent , potential and potentate . In Lithuanian , pats as a standalone word came to mean husband, himself ( patis in Old Lithuanian ), as did pati in Hindi / Hindustani . This article about
42-540: The meanings of husband and wife respectively when used as standalone words. The feminine equivalent in Indo-Aryan languages is patni (literally, "mistress" or " lady "). The term pati is frequently used as a suffix, e.g. lakhpati (meaning, master of a lakh rupees). The term pati is believed to originate from the Proto-Indo-European language . Older Persian languages, such as Avestan, use
49-421: The term pati or paiti as a title extensively, e.g. dmana-paiti (master of the house, similar to Sanskrit dam-pati ). In Sanskrit, it is 'pat-' when uncompounded and meaning"husband" instrumental case p/atyā-; dative case p/atye-; genitive case ablative p/atyur-; locative case p/atyau-; But when meaning"lord, master", and in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' regularly inflected with exceptions; )
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